In 2000, I was traveling to L.A to visit my Family members. When i first experience a little tremor i was so scared. Back in 2004 i was in Kata Noi Beach, Thailand when the tsunami happened but, we manged to get away before tides get stronger and higher. For sure i thought i would die if we hadn't paid a taxi driver 100 U.S Dollars to get away. I had never experience anything close to death before.
Ever been in an Earthquake?
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Nope.
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The earthquake I was in back in the day shook my whole school. We all ended up being sent home soon after. Was pretty crazy that day.
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Funny you make this thread...
A couple days ago, I was thinking "What should I do if there was an earth quake? Would I go under a doorway in case the ceiling falls?"
Ironicly enough, belive it or not, a quake hit.
There hasn't been a quake in Lancaster, Pennsylvania since I lived here, almost 8 years!
Perfect thought timing ^^
A couple days ago, I was thinking "What should I do if there was an earth quake? Would I go under a doorway in case the ceiling falls?"
Ironicly enough, belive it or not, a quake hit.
There hasn't been a quake in Lancaster, Pennsylvania since I lived here, almost 8 years!
Perfect thought timing ^^
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Never but I have been in a couple of Nasty Hurricanes!
I live in L.A. and back in 1994 there was magnitude 6.7 Earthquake. I lived somewhat far away but my house shook back and forth and every one in the neighborhood was outside. The ground acceleration caused by the earthquake was the highest ever instrumentally recorded in an urban area in North America. That's pretty crazy and apparently another big one is far overdue, and supposedly this one will be bigger.
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Not as bad as you would think... Some you barely feel, some it rocks the house.
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I was in the 1989 earthquake in San Francisco, i was young but hey i was still there
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In 2001 I rode out a 6.8 earthquake epicenter south of Seattle.
I was hiking on a popular hiking trail on one of the foothills seen in the picture. There was a high frequency wave at first, almost like a vibration, which vibrated the fallen log I was walking past at the time, scaring the heck out of me. Next slow and undulating waves followed. I never fell down but the scary thing is that you don't know how strong it's going to get, and you don't know how long it's going to last. They know for a fact Seattle will experience a 9.0 earthquake, which, if you know anything about the richter scale is a huuuuuge earthquake. Each point of the scale is a factor of 10, so a 6.0 is 10 times stronger than a 5.0 and a 7.0 is 100 times as strong as a 5 etc. Anyway, just as I started hearing trees starting crack and snap it subsided. Pretty surreal when you live your life on the assumption that the ground is for granted while what you stand on is really just a thin crust floating on molten lava. Sweet!
Heres a pic. from the town I was hiking, Enumclaw, WA.
I was hiking on a popular hiking trail on one of the foothills seen in the picture. There was a high frequency wave at first, almost like a vibration, which vibrated the fallen log I was walking past at the time, scaring the heck out of me. Next slow and undulating waves followed. I never fell down but the scary thing is that you don't know how strong it's going to get, and you don't know how long it's going to last. They know for a fact Seattle will experience a 9.0 earthquake, which, if you know anything about the richter scale is a huuuuuge earthquake. Each point of the scale is a factor of 10, so a 6.0 is 10 times stronger than a 5.0 and a 7.0 is 100 times as strong as a 5 etc. Anyway, just as I started hearing trees starting crack and snap it subsided. Pretty surreal when you live your life on the assumption that the ground is for granted while what you stand on is really just a thin crust floating on molten lava. Sweet!
Heres a pic. from the town I was hiking, Enumclaw, WA.
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A few here in Southern Cali, but up north I hope will stay the most memorable.
1989. World series was going on. Was on my way home from the "Navy Exchange" on Treasure Island Naval station, San Francisco Ca. to watch the game.
The man made island my dad was stationed on was connected to Yerba Buena Island which connects the Oakland side of the Bay Bridge to the San Francisco side.
When it struck, I was walking out the door and the frame shook left to right enough to hit me on the shoulder as I walked through with glass shattering. In 89 alot of the base was still under construction so there was a huge field across from the Exchange to just run out into the open and take cover? Seriously nothing to do but ride it out.
After what seemed like a few minutes it was calm but you could see smoke, hear helicopters going to the bridge and everywhere, hear Sirens going off for the Coast Guard who had a base on the island.
I heard a segment of the top side of the Oakland side of the bride collapse onto it self and in the distance which I thought was an echo I heard the Cypress freeway collapsing. I got on my BMX and on the way home I saw a huge crack in the island 4ft deep 2 1/2 ft wide and over 10ft long.
My family was cool. No power, no flooding, no gas leaks, no damage to the house. MPs driving by saying to conserve water, no cells.. sorta, only radio... pagers. People freaking out over lit candles and a "TSUNAMI". It was chaos. The craziest part, it started to get dark quick and the only light when you looked across the bay from Treasure Island (sea level a few miles across) was the Marina district on fire.
Its rare you see the city and the landmarks turned OFF and illuminated by a blaze. Made me think of the 1906 quake.
They shut down the bridge for months. They had Ferry Boats to take people from one side of the bay to the other. Treasure Island (TI) to San Francisco port to meet friends and over to Alameda base to see the carrier fleet was nice, but alot of the city was never the same.
http://pubs.usgs.gov/dds/dds-29/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_World_Series
1989. World series was going on. Was on my way home from the "Navy Exchange" on Treasure Island Naval station, San Francisco Ca. to watch the game.
The man made island my dad was stationed on was connected to Yerba Buena Island which connects the Oakland side of the Bay Bridge to the San Francisco side.
When it struck, I was walking out the door and the frame shook left to right enough to hit me on the shoulder as I walked through with glass shattering. In 89 alot of the base was still under construction so there was a huge field across from the Exchange to just run out into the open and take cover? Seriously nothing to do but ride it out.
After what seemed like a few minutes it was calm but you could see smoke, hear helicopters going to the bridge and everywhere, hear Sirens going off for the Coast Guard who had a base on the island.
I heard a segment of the top side of the Oakland side of the bride collapse onto it self and in the distance which I thought was an echo I heard the Cypress freeway collapsing. I got on my BMX and on the way home I saw a huge crack in the island 4ft deep 2 1/2 ft wide and over 10ft long.
My family was cool. No power, no flooding, no gas leaks, no damage to the house. MPs driving by saying to conserve water, no cells.. sorta, only radio... pagers. People freaking out over lit candles and a "TSUNAMI". It was chaos. The craziest part, it started to get dark quick and the only light when you looked across the bay from Treasure Island (sea level a few miles across) was the Marina district on fire.
Its rare you see the city and the landmarks turned OFF and illuminated by a blaze. Made me think of the 1906 quake.
They shut down the bridge for months. They had Ferry Boats to take people from one side of the bay to the other. Treasure Island (TI) to San Francisco port to meet friends and over to Alameda base to see the carrier fleet was nice, but alot of the city was never the same.
http://pubs.usgs.gov/dds/dds-29/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_World_Series
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yeup back in elementary school i was in a big quake that centered around San Francisco? ..aftermath wasnt pretty
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many smalls (each two month) and 2 bigs last was 6.5
Caribeans islands move a lot
Caribeans islands move a lot
i've lived in southern california my whole life. so i've been through some big ones like the Northridge (don't remember the size, but the one that demolished the 10 freeway) and the last big one was in Joshua Tree. There are small ones here and there, like the 5.0 in chino area a couple months ago.
